Jose Arturo Sierra

Jose Arturo Sierra (1946-26 January 2018) was the Chief Justice of the Guatemala Supreme Court from 2013 to 2014.

Biography
Jose Arturo Sierra was born in Guatemala in 1946, and he had a long career in the judicial branch. He worked as a notary, lawyer, judge, and magistrate, serving as a magistrate of the Constitutional Court from 1996 to 2001. Sierra was also a professor at the University of San Carlos, was a member of the Board of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, and was President of the Assembly of Professional Associations. In 2013, he chaired the Supreme Court for 10 months. On 26 January 2018, he was mortally wounded by hitmen on a motorcycle while travelling in an agricultural truck in the Las Charcas neighborhood of Guatemala City. He died on the way due to the hospital, and his death was either seen as an attempted robbery or a planned hit. On the same day as his death, the Constitutional Court was asked by the Attorney General to consider impeaching the corrupt president Jimmy Morales.